If journalists spent any time with working people, they would realize certain things very quickly. The first is that most people are not race (or Trump) obsessives the way Hollywood and the media are. I once worked in a large home improvement store, and my co-workers were from Africa, Ireland, Mexico, and the Middle East. We were all focused on various tasks and made friends with one another easily, usually bonding in the break room over which professional sport was playing on TV. People did care about politics, but it was nowhere near the extent of the wall-to-wall liberal obsessives on CNN and in the New York Times and Washington Post.

Liberals dependent on a crisis culture (BREAKING NEWS!) to give them things to do may not like to hear it, but the American experiment is working fine. We all respect one another. Now leave us alone.

Also: Most working people have a visceral and authentic distrust of political and social coercion. We dislike politicians, celebrities, and professors raising our taxes. We don’t want to be lectured on whether a man can become a woman, that police are racists, or that illegal immigration is not a problem. It’s an often-overlooked irony of history that Poland’s Solidarity movement, a working-class party, helped topple communism.